--- title: "A Tent for the Ark" description: "So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had..." image: "" book: "1 Chronicles" bookId: "1CH" testament: "old" startChapter: 16 startVerse: 1 endChapter: 16 endVerse: 6 coversChapters: [16] aiTitle: "A Tent for the Ark" aiDescription: "So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had..." hasAiStory: true location: "" persons: ["Asaph","Benaiah","David","Eliab","God","Jahaziel","Jehiel","Jeiel","Mattithiah","Obed-edom","Shemiramoth","Zechariah"] hashtags: ["ark","covenant","faith","stewardship"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "1CH/a-tent-for-the-ark" canonicalId: "1CH.16.1-16.6" chronologicalOrder: 586 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "1CH/transporting-the-ark-to-jerusalem" nextSlug: "1CH/davids-psalm-of-thanksgiving" --- So they brought the ark of [God](/persons/god) and placed it inside the tent that [David](/persons/david) had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD. Then he distributed to every man and woman of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. David appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to celebrate, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel. [Asaph](/persons/asaph) was the chief, [Zechariah](/persons/zechariah) was second, then [Jeiel](/persons/jeiel), [Shemiramoth](/persons/shemiramoth), [Jehiel](/persons/jehiel), [Mattithiah](/persons/mattithiah), [Eliab](/persons/eliab), [Benaiah](/persons/benaiah), [Obed-edom](/persons/obed-edom), and Jeiel. They were to play the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals and the priests Benaiah and [Jahaziel](/persons/jahaziel) blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

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